It has been in excess of a ten years since Donkervoort very first declared the D8 GTO line. All through those people many years, the Dutch carmaker didn’t trace at any replacement for the lightweight supercar… until lately.
In a teaser printed on Donkervoort’s internet site and numerous social media channels, a new design is coming and it will be named the F22. Possibly named after the famed stealth Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet, the teaser will come with a caption that states “You may in no way see it coming. It will be really worth the excess weight.”
There just isn’t any verified info about the design just still, except for the identify and the logo proven in the teaser. However, the curious engage in on the phrase “really worth the fat” could present some clues about the new design.
Donkervoort has been recognised to make extremely-lightweight, hand-constructed supercars – a actuality that gave the corporation its critical acclaim. With the wordplay above, we can deduce that the new product will be heavier than the current D8 GTO. If you might be a admirer of the Dutch model, this isn’t really great news but we all know that further kilograms can be offset by introducing energy, which is predicted on the new model.
For reference, the D8 GTO Unique, which designed its US debut earlier this yr, arrives with an Audi-sourced 2.5-liter inline-five turbocharged motor that will make over 400 horsepower (294 kilowatts). Priced at $240,000, the US-spec light-weight supercar can sprint to 62 miles per hour (-100 kilometers for every hour) in just 2.7 seconds and strike 124 mph (200 km/hh) in 7.7 seconds.
Will the Donkervoort F22 stay up to the acclaim of the design it will substitute? And far more importantly, will the Dutch corporation abandon its minimalist Lotus Tremendous 7-influenced layout and release a car or truck that takes immediately after the F-22 stealth fighter jet? We are going to know in the months to appear so for now, all we can do is bodyweight.